Everton’s takeover is deep into its 28th week, with 777 Partners having voiced their shock over just how long this process has taken.
However, it can only really be their fault that the deal has not yet been ratified, with their inability to offer the appropriate documents clearly hampering its completion.
This persisting delay has unsurprisingly encouraged further scrutiny, with some journalists in particular taking every opportunity to discredit the organisation.
Well, it could all prove inconsequential soon, but that is only if certain clauses are met to finally usurp Farhad Moshiri from his Merseyside throne.
The Esk predicts Farhad Moshiri will have to do something soon
Speaking on his Talking the Blues podcast, Paul Quinn, who enjoys combing through Everton’s finances throughout his spare time, offered his verdict on what might happen at the club in the coming weeks.
Having rightly been disgusted but unsurprised with the latest set of accounts published last weekend, it feels like the rest of the fanbase has finally had their eyes opened to the truly dire financial position of the club.
The Toffees need a hero, and whether that be the controversial 777 Partners or somebody else, it does not matter at the moment.
It feels like Quinn, better known as ‘The Esk’ on X, is slightly warming to that notion despite having maintained a rather public smear campaign for the Miami-based firm.
He claimed: ‘And the one thing I can say, which hopefully adds some surety to all of this, is that in the next few weeks, no matter what the outcome is, Moshiri will no longer have control of Everton Football Club, and we will have new people in control.
‘That might be 777. I sincerely hope it isn’t, but it might be, and I don’t think it will be. It might be an administrator because the club’s gone into administration because it can’t pay its bills, or it may be the combination of MSP and others.’
777 Partners know what needs to be done
Whether you are one of the few advocating for 777 Partners’ installation as owners, or instead arguing that Moshiri has made an almighty blunder by exclusively trying to sell to them, at this point, Everton just need anyone in charge.
And with the Premier League having issued what seems to be their final ultimatum – four conditions with which they must pass before granted the acquisition of the club – they know what needs to be done.
So, just do it?
If the funds are in place, show them to those overseeing the takeover and prove that you have the financial might to take on this truly horrific institution, riddled with debt.
At this point, just getting anyone new in charge is pivotal, as they would at least be far more invested in the project than Moshiri currently is.